BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Gerald Watkins watched Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and other New York Yankees wade through stalks of corn onto an Iowa field in 2021, near the filming site for the 1989 baseball ...

Satchel Paige grew up in a section of Mobile known as “Down the Bay,” learned to pitch while spending nearly six years in the Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Law-breakers in Mount Meigs, and ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Four years ago, Major League Baseball made the decision to recognize Negro Leagues as major leagues, on par with the ...

The historic site of Major League Baseball's special regular-season game on June 20 isn't a mythical cornfield dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter. It's an actual field of dreams that has featured ...

In Wetumpka, Ala. (pop. 3,300) last week, a jury of white men weighed the facts in the trial of a white man charged with raping a Negro woman. The prosecutor, Winston Huddleston, urged the jurors to ...

Having won the vote, the Southern Negro must now decide what to do with it. In eight counties of Alabama’s Black Belt, Negroes are divided over how to use their new power. The Democratic primaries ...